Physics 2170

Useful Links

General Links

• PhET: Physics Educaiton Technology Project --- many of the simulations used in class
• Download units conversion program
• Electric Field Applet
• Mathcad Voltage mapper
• Wolfgang Christian Physlets
• More Physics Applets
• Giancoli's Physics web site (interactive applets, quizzes, MCAT example problems, etc.)
• CU directories
• Gamow Tower Weather Station
• Physics Question of the Month
• Fourier Synthesis Applet
• Download the Orbit Simulator Gravity4
• Download wave *.avi files
• ITS download page (download cc32e45.exe, Netscape 4.5, to get Java 1.1)
• My Java class homepage
• Newton's Orbit Thought Experiment
• Physics 2000 Homepage
• Official Atomic Clock Time (am I late for class?)
• Satellites visible from Boulder this week
• Prof. Steven Pollock's personal physics bookmarks
• Images of famous scientists

Optics Applets

• LightSite
• Thin Lens

Telescope/Space Science Web sites:

•     Hubble Space Telescope Pictures.
•      NASA NEAR Mission (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous)
•      Download movie of rotating asteroid Eros.
•      NASA TV (live coverage)
•      Hear a Pulsar (rotating neutron star).
•      2001 The Movie: How was it done?
•      Project Galileo - Jupiter Orbiter
•      Chandra X-Ray Observatory
•      Keck and other giant telescopes
•      Spy Satellite Web page.